HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Solomon Joseph Solomon, Pope Leo X, Niger River
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Africa is the birthplace of a wide variety of human societies. How many languages?- very difficult and contested so there is no agreed upon (around 1500) Not a lot was written by historians about africa. Africa has a longer history than anywhere else. Many people believe that africa has the shortest history in the world. Many populations in africa have been illiterate. Africa does have plenty of written sources. Earliest artifacts found in ethiopia: therefore has a very long history. Highlands are one of the places in the world where there is an agricultural revolution: mullet and. Well located to interact with other civilizations. Orthodox church says it shouldn t eat pork. Scholars are uncertain when it really reached africa. Three disciples of jesus or a group went to judea or a pair of brothers impressed the ethiopian king who converted and these are the theories as to how christianity spread in ethiopia.
